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A few fundamental points
Rosa Antifa Vienna (RAW) was founded in the summer of 1995 by young anti-fascists. Why Rosa (Pink)? quite simple, because we were sick of the predominance of homophobia in this society and unfortunately in the left wing scene. Expressions like "Urgh! They're gay, I'm not going in there, I could catch AIDS...." we could and no longer wanted to hear, even from our "own" people. We felt our freedom within the scene was infringed, the people that didn't want to have a normal two person relationship were, and are, gossiped about maliciously. Because it was not possible to talk about sexuality without everyone blushing. Because there are still people who believe that sadmoasochist people need psychiatric treatment, or that lesbian and gay people must be "healed". Because many people believe that being hetero is "natural" or "normal". We simply want to form the relationships which we have chosen, so we (all people currently involved) can live without discrimination. We want to love who and how we want (if he/she also wants to).
Even if we are called ROSA Antifa it doesn't mean that all people who work with us have to be homosexual, we disapprove of any proof of sexuality. We want to change the balance of power: we fight against the division of people into homo- and heterosexual, native and foreign citizens, men and women, sick, healthy, poor and rich....and with these the associated roles and worthiness. We are simply all people, and that must be reason enough for everyone to have the right to have a peaceful and comfortable life and follow their own ideas! These rights are withheld from us on a daily basis. As a result the system functions. They divide us into those who kick and those to be kicked. Must these divisions maintain and become deeper?
And we have been kicked enough
Every single day women and girls are exploited, sexually abused and raped. They are seen, by "their" husbands, fathers, brothers, bosses and the state as their private property. Their personal rights over their lives and bodies are refused. They are supposed to stay in the kitchen and raise children, work thanklessly for miserly wages, look after and satisfy their husband who dictates which advertisements she must obey and which cosmetics she must wear.
NO! Patriarchy must be Crushed!
We want no education (parents, nursery, school, teachers...)
that first breaks people and then teaches them how
to function so that they are productive. We want no
money (only that so we can live), no bosses and no
fat cats who profit through our work. We don't understand
why we are supposed to pay for public transport,
accommodation, food and other necessities. We don't
understand why people are in prison because they have
the "wrong" passport, because the were born
behind a line on a map and as a result are "2nd
class citizens"! Why are there prisons at all
in which people are interned? People who have not obliged
the prevailing laws, or are themselves not able to
adhere to these laws. Why are people in prisons for
crimes against property? People who need to satisfy
their hunger, people who have debts. This is the perfect
world that the advertisements show us and with that
the social pressure to own objects of prestige, we
are no longer able to bear this.
Why must we all currently support a police framework
whose laws enforce and protect the rich and spy on
us in all areas of life and control and harass the
poor? We belong, not in the slightest, to your laws,
that help to further slaughter people in wars that
are only always about money, power and the influence
of rulers. Why do these wars also gain the blessing
of the church, when the church in this country as the
Roman Catholic church has become one of the worst of
its many incarnations. A church that, with its morality,
its advice on curbing self determination, demonises
sexuality and forbids contraception, wants to force
us all in to totally monogamous, child based hetero
marriages.
A church that just like the rest of society has never
come to terms with its fascist past.
There always remain innumerable old nazis in positions
of power, to say nothing of the general acceptance
of their attitude of mind, because the general racist
consensus is the ready base for their successors and
it is already prepared.
What makes us sick and incensed is the fact that the role in society allocated to us is the "RadfahrerInnenprinzip", in which we are supposed to "bow to superiors and kick underlings", that we ourselves are part of the general suppression pyramid. As 'men' against women, middle Europeans against the '3rd World', as students against the 'uneducated', as workers against the unemployed etc. It all depends on what is currently relevant to us.
Therefore what we are sick of, is that it can be different. We are of the conviction that the whole repressive system in general is not necessary. If you on principle want to change something, and we hold exactly that as a pressing necessity, and is for us all perfectly achievable. So it is, for example, completely irrational that you have to work your whole life, just to be able to receive a halfway bearable lifestyle, there is definitely more than enough goods any way, or there certainly should be. Only certain people, namely those who can't pay for them, have no access.
What we want is....
... one world, in which it is just enough to be a person,
to have the right to equal access to the wealth of
the community (which is indisputably available).
To work in society because you yourself have decided
to, and not because you must, and through it all, produce
that what you yourself and others need and then simply
have everything else at every ones free disposal. Simply
a requirement economy, no "free market economy".
A way of producing in which the producers decide what
they want and are able to just as much as the consumers,
and in which the sole drive is not striving after profit,
but, really, striving for the meeting of the needs
of the people.
Capitalism claims to be able to do this too. The sole
purpose though of capitalism is, by careful management,
to obtain a profit and thus it invents and maintains
inequalities.
As long as money is earned from people having particular
needs, these needs will never be allowed to be totally
fulfilled, in fact, the deplorable state of affairs
will get greater. The needs not being removed means
the system can function further. So, for example, if
all have a place to live and there is no more homelessness,
the "free" accommodation market will collapse,
the oil industry will go bust if sensible energy sources
are used that do not poison our last breath and there
is no pharmaceutical industry that doesn't have any
interest in taking preventative measures and people
not becoming ill in the first place, or eradicating
especially "profitable" illnesses etc. Those
who have the say as to what happens in this world use
their power to stop alternative research initiatives,
as they don't profit from these. Who has the money,
who has the power. We want nobody to have power, we
want nobody to govern us, we need no leader, we can
think and act for ourselves. We need no elections,
because if elections changed things, they'd be illegal,
we won't let ourselves be made fools of. We want to
be able to live freely. To be oppressed by no one and
to oppress no one. Therefore we are not a party, with
us there is no members, no hierarchy, what we do and
write we decide together. Our leaflets and newspapers
are not supposed to depict universal wisdom, they are
our thoughts and supposed only to stimulate people
to think for themselves. The people who read these
should build their own opinions, we are only seeking
to inform and to say that there are other possibilities
to the way things are now.
Apart from the usual things, politically expressing ourselves (flyers, newspapers, rallies, demos....) we also attempt to communicate something through street theatre. That we however have no broad audience is obvious, we have no television station or a newspaper circulation in the millions. We finance our writing, office and actions through voluntary self exploitation and occasionally festivals. We ask for no money for any of our productions, whatever they may be, we are obviously very happy to receive donations and feedback (even when it is critical). As a result it is possible for us to carry on working.
WE WON'T GIVE IN, THEY WON'T BREAK US!
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